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Isambarde are a folk group featuring guitar, fiddle and oboe that have been working on a new CD over the past 8 months at Blue Moon Studio, near Banbury.
One of their original tracks "Private Green" is a nostalgic piece about an experience of World War One.
Towards completion of the project they had the idea that the mood of this particular piece could benefit from a brass trio introduction and backing. On the Friday, their sound engineer, Mark, contacted a friend in Hook Norton Brass Band to explore the practicalities. The following Tuesday the Trio assembled. Martin Quartermain: Cornet and Jeanette Harbron: Flugel, from Hook Norton with Steve Anker, from Brackley, helping out on Trombone.
Time in a studio is precious and the pressure was on to complete the work that night. This was a new piece of music with some challenging notations as well as the challenge of putting the three parts together with the original recording by the band. Our three heroes tackled the new piece as a group then recorded each instrument individually to the pre-recorded piece. Recording studio sound is merciless. It takes no prisoners. As each one heard themselves played back they winced at the raw exposure of intonation difficulties. Within two hours however a workable sound emerged along with confidence and a great experience of learning. Everyone agreed that all players could benefit from hearing themselves play in recording studio conditions.
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